It's easy enough to create fake events or even fake seasons, but those tend to show up in real members' histories if you keep them for later use. So I was wondering if we could create a whole fake club to experiment with. It's not a big deal and I'm not requesting this as a feature; I'm just idly curious. Thanks.

When you are first starting there is a secret routine that will create dummy data, but it wipes out any existing data first. But that's not what you are asking. There isn't anything like what you are asking.

@Chris - My $0.02 for using the online demo site for training is that not using the SCCA classes for the demo data creates confusion when trying to explain something to a person from a club that uses SCCA classes. It is best not to make a bad first impression on new users, and I personally wouldn't let anyone here see the software until I had imported our last event's AXware results and classes into AXti.me so they were at least familiar with the driver names and classes in the new framework.

Would simply cloning the AXtime folder and starting up from the clone allow for creating a demo/test/training sandbox?????

@vreihen Knowing that the SCCA gets kind of soggy and hard to light when you overtly use their classing without being affiliated, I understand why Chris doesn't do that in the demo. That's not a knock against the SCCA - it is their intellectual property - but it is the reality of the situation.

@Duke - They really give non-SCCA clubs a hard time about using the SCCA Solo classes? There are several independent clubs in our area who have all used the SCCA's classes for years!

Putting on my old-timer hat (even though I'm not THAT old), autocross at least here in the northeast was put together by independent clubs who were members of a regional council. One of the big things that the council did was standardize the classes that all member clubs ran for their events, in addition to making a points series from two of each individual club's events. When the SCCA came into the autocross business, everyone adopted their classes as standard and the councils eventually became extinct. In our area, the only thing that the Hudson Valley Council of Sports Car Clubs does now is appoint three captains to organize the New York team for the long-running Tri-State Championship, which used to be a big event between three councils but is now basically an attendance trophy for whoever is hosting it.

Long story short, outside of NASA and the marque clubs, I can only recall ever seeing one non-SCCA club that didn't run SCCA classes -- shout out :-) to Martin Sports Car Club in Orlando, Florida. I'm having a hard time believing that Topeka has taken any action against non-SCCA clubs for using their Solo classes at non-SCCA events.....

@Duke - I believe that I have figured out how to accomplish what you wanted to do.

Windows:

Copy the databases folder and all contents to databases.play .

Copy STEP_1_start_database.bat to STEP_1_start_database_PLAY.bat .

Edit STEP_1_start_database_PLAY.bat and change the first line to this:

mongoDb\mongod.exe --dbpath databases.play --smallfiles

Mac OS-X:

Copy the database folder and all contents to database.play .

Copy START_STEP_1.command to START_STEP_1_PLAY.command .

Edit START_STEP_1_PLAY.command and change the second line to:

cd database.play

Usage:

When you want to use your live/production database, run the original step_1 batch/script file at startup. If you want to play with a scratch copy, run the modified step_1_PLAY batch/script file. You may even be able to do a local backup from one database, shut it down and open the other one, and restore from that backup to keep them in sync.

@Chris - Do you know of any reason why this is a bad idea (other than accidentally updating OLR with play data) ?????